Growing up as a kid watching Star Trek, Lost in Space, and all of the Sci-Fi movies of the 50's, 60's, and 70's always led to dreams of space travel and people from earth exploring and living on other planets. Unfortunately the older we got, at least for me anyway, the less likely this seemed to ever happen. Then with our space program in moth balls I told my son, who grew up watching everything I did, thanks to DVD's and the Internet, that nothing close to our day dreams would ever come to fruition in my or his lifetimes. Now with this announcement from Musk it sounds as though I will happily have to eat my words. Reading this article brings back the surreal feelings that I felt watching my first episodes of Star Trek when I was a child. If someone from the private sector wants to pick up the ball and get things going for an eventual colony on Mars, one that we can all see light at the end of what's been a very, very long tunnel, then the government should pick up the difference in the bill. Not only helping to realize the dreams and fantasies of millions of people, but an eventualitie that future generations will be forced to deal with when this planet can no longer support its population for a plethora of reasons. As I sat here reading this article, I'm watching an episode of Wagon Train on TV. The episode that explains how challenging and dangerous a wagon train from St. Louis to California can be, "The Horace Best Story", what a more perfect setting to read about the future wagon trains into the stars.